Food webs speak of human impact: Using stable isotope-based tools to measure ecological consequences of environmental change

Plasticity in the trophic niche of an invasive ant explains establishment success and long‐term coexistence

(2021) Paride Balzani et al.   OIKOS

Integrated ecosystems: linking food webs through reciprocal resource reliance

(2021) Ethan M. Baruch et al.   ECOLOGY

Deforestation caused abrupt shift in Great Lakes nitrogen cycle

(2020) Eric J. Guiry et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Invaders induce coordinated isotopic niche shifts in native fish species

(2020) Jane Sarah Rogosch et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Effects of non‐native fish on lacustrine food web structure and mercury biomagnification along a dissolved organic carbon gradient

(2020) Benjamin D. Barst et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Integrating fish scale and bone isotopic compositions for ‘deep time’ retrospective studies

(2020) Eric J. Guiry et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Food webs and species biodiversity of the fouling community associated with bivalve aquaculture farms compared to analogous NON-FARM structures

(2019) Carissa Elizabeth Maurin et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Land use alters trophic redundancy and resource flow through stream food webs

(2019) Elliott L. Price et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Niches in the Anthropocene: passerine assemblages show niche expansion from natural to urban habitats

(2019) Emilio Pagani‐Núñez et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Compound‐specific isotope analysis of amino acids as a new tool to uncover trophic chains in soil food webs

(2019) Melanie M. Pollierer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Isotopic niche is not equal to trophic niche

(2019) Nicolas Hette‐Tronquart   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Reframing the mammoth steppe: Insights from analysis of isotopic niches

(2019) R. Schwartz-Narbonne et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Complexities of Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Biogeochemistry in Ancient Freshwater Ecosystems: Implications for the Study of Past Subsistence and Environmental Change

(2019) Eric Guiry   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Mechanisms of trophic niche compression: Evidence from landscape disturbance

(2019) Francis J. Burdon et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Human pressures on two estuaries of the Iberian Peninsula are reflected in food web structure

(2019) I. Donázar-Aramendía et al.   Scientific Reports

Trophic niche segregation allows range‐extending coral reef fishes to co‐exist with temperate species under climate change

(2019) Kelsey M. Kingsbury et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

rKIN: Kernel‐based method for estimating isotopic niche size and overlap

(2019) Carolyn A. Eckrich et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Geography, not human impact, is the predominant predictor in a 150-year stable isotope fish record from the coastal United States

(2019) Autumn Oczkowski et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The role of alien fish (the centrarchid Micropterus salmoides) in lake food webs highlighted by stable isotope analysis

(2018) Maria Letizia Costantini et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

tRophicPosition , an r package for the Bayesian estimation of trophic position from consumer stable isotope ratios

(2018) Claudio Quezada-Romegialli et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Analyzing mixing systems using a new generation of Bayesian tracer mixing models

(2018) Brian C. Stock et al.   PeerJ

Investigating high seas foraging conditions for salmon in the North Pacific: insights from a 100 year scale archive for Rivers Inlet sockeye salmon

(2018) Boris Espinasse et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Foundation species enhance food web complexity through non-trophic facilitation

(2018) Annieke C. W. Borst et al.   PLoS One

Ontogenetic changes in stable isotope (δ13C and δ15N) values in squid Gonatus fabricii (Cephalopoda) reveal its important ecological role in the Arctic

(2018) AV Golikov et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Looking to the past to ensure the future of the world's oldest living vertebrate: Isotopic evidence for multi-decadal shifts in trophic ecology of the Australian lungfish

(2018) Julian D. Olden et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

A temporal shift in trophic diversity among a predator assemblage in a warming Arctic

(2018) David J. Yurkowski et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Between-lake variation in the trophic ecology of an invasive crayfish

(2017) Michelle C. Jackson et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Are food web structures well represented in isotopic spaces?

(2017) Franck Jabot et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Long-term ecological changes in marine mammals driven by recent warming in northwestern Alaska

(2017) Paul Szpak et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Isotopic niches support the resource breadth hypothesis

(2017) Jonathan A. Rader et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Dispersal and assimilation of an aquaculture waste subsidy in a low productivity coastal environment

(2017) C.A. White et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Non-traditional isotope perspectives in vertebrate palaeobiology

(2017) Jeremy E. Martin et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Stable isotope analysis as an early monitoring tool for community-scale effects of rat eradication

(2017) Katherine M. Nigro et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

The ecological importance of intraspecific variation

(2017) Simone Des Roches et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Integrated trophic position decreases in more diverse communities of stream food webs

(2017) Naoto F. Ishikawa et al.   Scientific Reports

Trophic isotopic carbon variation increases with pond’s hydroperiod: Evidence from an Austral ephemeral ecosystem

(2017) Tatenda Dalu et al.   Scientific Reports

Resource subsidies between stream and terrestrial ecosystems under global change

(2016) Stefano Larsen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Stable isotope evidence from formalin–ethanol-preserved specimens indicates dietary shifts and increasing diet overlap in Lake Victoria cichlids

(2016) Mary A. Kishe-Machumu et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Hitting the moving target: modelling ontogenetic shifts with stable isotopes reveals the importance of isotopic turnover

(2016) Eric Hertz et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Dietary niche constriction when invaders meet natives: evidence from freshwater decapods

(2016) Michelle C. Jackson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Beyond carbon and nitrogen: guidelines for estimating three-dimensional isotopic niche space

(2016) Sam Rossman et al.   Ecology and Evolution

True autochthony and allochthony in aquatic–terrestrial resource fluxes along a landuse gradient

(2016) Micael Jonsson et al.   Freshwater Science

True autochthony and allochthony in aquatic–terrestrial resource fluxes along a landuse gradient

(2016) Micael Jonsson et al.   Freshwater Science

Deforestation-driven food-web collapse linked to emerging tropical infectious disease, Mycobacterium ulcerans

(2016) A. L. Morris et al.   Science Advances

Stable isotopes reveal food web modifications along the upstream–downstream gradient of a temperate stream

(2015) Nicolas Hette-Tronquart et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

The rapid return of marine-derived nutrients to a freshwater food web following dam removal

(2015) Christopher M. Tonra et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Non-native species modify the isotopic structure of freshwater fish communities across the globe

(2015) A. Sagouis et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Quantifying the multiple facets of isotopic diversity: New metrics for stable isotope ecology

(2015) Julien Cucherousset et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Evidence for the persistence of food web structure after amphibian extirpation in a Neotropical stream

(2015) Thomas R. Barnum et al.   ECOLOGY

A new probabilistic method for quantifyingn-dimensional ecological niches and niche overlap

(2015) Heidi K. Swanson et al.   ECOLOGY

Metal Stable Isotope Signatures as Tracers in Environmental Geochemistry

(2015) Jan G. Wiederhold   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Assessing anthropogenic pressures on coastal marine ecosystems using stable CNS isotopes: State of the art, knowledge gaps, and community-scale perspectives

(2015) Giorgio Mancinelli et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Investigating isotopic functional indices to reveal changes in the structure and functioning of benthic communities

(2015) Carinne Rigolet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Trophic levels of marine consumers from nitrogen stable isotope analysis: estimation and uncertainty

(2015) Simon Jennings et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Trophic discrimination of nitrogen stable isotopes in amino acids varies with diet quality in a marine fish

(2015) Kelton W. McMahon et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Rescaling stable isotope data for standardized evaluations of food webs and species niches

(2015) B Fry et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Benthic Trophic Interactions in an Antarctic Shallow Water Ecosystem Affected by Recent Glacier Retreat

(2015) Francesca Pasotti et al.   PLoS One

Food Web Structure in Temporally-Forced Ecosystems

(2015) Bailey C. McMeans et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Food-web stability signals critical transitions in temperate shallow lakes

(2015) Jan J. Kuiper et al.   Nature Communications

Effect of multiple disturbances on food web vulnerability to biodiversity loss in detritus-based systems

(2015) Edoardo Calizza et al.   Ecosphere

Rescaling stable isotope data for standardized evaluations of food webs and species niches

(2015) B Fry et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Angling baits and invasive crayfish as important trophic subsidies for a large cyprinid fish

(2014) Tea Bašić et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

Best practices for use of stable isotope mixing models in food-web studies

(2014) Donald L. Phillips et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Changing gull diet in a changing world: A 150-year stable isotope (δ13C,δ15N) record from feathers collected in the Pacific Northwest of North America

(2014) Louise K. Blight et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecological opportunities and intraspecific competition alter trophic niche specialization in an opportunistic stream predator

(2014) Charlotte Evangelista et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Reconstructing δ13C isoscapes of phytoplankton production in a coastal upwelling system with amino acid isotope values of littoral mussels

(2014) NL Vokhshoori et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Contrasting energy pathways at the community level as a consequence of regime shifts

(2014) Jun Xu et al.   OECOLOGIA

Longer and Less Overlapping Food Webs in Anthropogenically Disturbed Marine Ecosystems: Confirmations from the Past

(2014) Fabiana Saporiti et al.   PLoS One

High intraspecific variability in the functional niche of a predator is associated with ontogenetic shift and individual specialization

(2014) Tian Zhao et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Ecosystem fragmentation drives increased diet variation in an endemic livebearing fish of the Bahamas

(2014) Márcio S. Araújo et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Iron, copper and zinc isotopic fractionation up mammal trophic chains

(2013) Klervia Jaouen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Invasive macrophyte effects on littoral trophic structure and carbon sources

(2013) Katya E. Kovalenko et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Variability of water temperature may influence food-chain length in temperate streams

(2013) Nicolas Hette-Tronquart et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Grizzly bear predation links the loss of native trout to the demography of migratory elk in Yellowstone

(2013) A. D. Middleton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Gravel dredging alters diversity and structure of riverine fish assemblages

(2012) JONATHAN A. FREEDMAN et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Compound-specific amino acid δ15N patterns in marine algae: Tracer potential for cyanobacterial vs. eukaryotic organic nitrogen sources in the ocean

(2012) Matthew D. McCarthy et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Demographic and Phenotypic Effects of Human Mediated Trophic Subsidy on a Large Australian Lizard (Varanus varius): Meal Ticket or Last Supper?

(2012) Tim S. Jessop et al.   PLoS One

IsoWeb: A Bayesian Isotope Mixing Model for Diet Analysis of the Whole Food Web

(2012) Taku Kadoya et al.   PLoS One

Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity

(2012) Ross M. Thompson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Arthropod food webs in organic and conventional wheat farming systems of an agricultural long-term experiment: a stable isotope approach

(2011) Klaus Birkhofer et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

On the Use of Stable Isotopes in Trophic Ecology

(2011) William J. Boecklen et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Applying stable isotopes to examine food-web structure: an overview of analytical tools

(2011) Craig A. Layman et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Multiple anthropogenic stressors and the structural properties of food webs

(2011) Eoin J. O'Gorman et al.   ECOLOGY

Anthropogenic and natural sources of acidity and metals and their influence on the structure of stream food webs

(2011) Kristy L. Hogsden et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Comparing isotopic niche widths among and within communities: SIBER - Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R

(2011) Andrew L. Jackson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Human lakeshore development alters the structure and trophic basis of littoral food webs

(2011) Mario Brauns et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Sulfur stable isotope indicators of residency in estuarine fish

(2011) Brian Fry et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Determination of aquatic food-web structure based on compound-specific nitrogen isotopic composition of amino acids

(2011) Yoshito Chikaraishi et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS

Merging Resource Availability with Isotope Mixing Models: The Role of Neutral Interaction Assumptions

(2011) Justin D. Yeakel et al.   PLoS One

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Addition of a new resource in agroecosystems: Do cover crops alter the trophic positions of generalist predators?

(2010) Pierre-François Duyck et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Linking aboveground and belowground food webs through carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses

(2010) Fujio Hyodo et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

A general hypothesis-testing framework for stable isotope ratios in ecological studies

(2010) Thomas F. Turner et al.   ECOLOGY

Linking Ecosystems, Food Webs, and Fish Production: Subsidies in Salmonid Watersheds

(2010) Mark S. Wipfli et al.   FISHERIES

The biological basis for understanding and predicting dietary-induced variation in nitrogen and sulphur isotope ratio discrimination

(2010) Scott T. Florin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Carbon and nitrogen flows through the benthic food web of a photic subtidal sandy sediment

(2010) V Evrard et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Climate change and freshwater ecosystems: impacts across multiple levels of organization

(2010) G. Woodward et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantifying Food Web Flows Using Linear Inverse Models

(2009) Dick van Oevelen et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Unravelling complexities in benthic food webs using a dual stable isotope (hydrogen and carbon) approach

(2009) PETER DEINES et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

The more food webs change, the more they stay the same

(2009) K. S. McCann et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantifying Inter- and Intra-Population Niche Variability Using Hierarchical Bayesian Stable Isotope Mixing Models

(2009) Brice X. Semmens et al.   PLoS One

Isotopic ecology ten years after a call for more laboratory experiments

(2008) Carlos Martínez del Rio et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Jason M. Tylianakis et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodilution of heavy metals in a stream macroinvertebrate food web: Evidence from stable isotope analysis

(2008) Kozo Watanabe et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Ecological thresholds and regime shifts: approaches to identification

(2008) Tom Andersen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION